Romanian László Balogh Signed Impressionist Pastel Lake Landscape Painting 37"

Description

Vintage Hungarian - Romanian Balogh Lajos signed pastel landscape painting featuring an impressionist blue lake landscape. Circa 1973.

Lajos (László) Balogh (b. 1928): Graduated from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1954. Worked as a graphic editor for Hungarian-language newspapers in Bucharest and illustrated numerous literary works. Primarily paints watercolors, pastels, and oils featuring landscapes (such as the Alföld region) and still lifes. His works are held in institutions like the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest.

Between 1951 and 1957, he studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under Jenő Barcsay and György Konecsni. From 1957, he was a member of the Art Fund and the Young Artists' Studio, and from 1965, he was a member of the Hungarian Association of Fine and Applied Artists. In 1958, he was admitted to the Old Artists' Colony of Szentendre. He was a founding member of the Szentendre Graphic Workshop (1981). He went on study tours to Italy (1962), Yugoslavia (1970), Poland (1966), Romania (1969), and France and Germany (1975). His most significant awards. 1980: the Danube Bend Summer Exhibition award; 1982: Pro Urbe Szentendre; 1985: 1st prize of the Mosaic Competition; 1986, 1989: the Szentendre Graphic Workshop Award; 1994: the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary; 1995: Honorary Citizen of the City of Szentendre; 1997: Pest County Award for Art; 1998: Anna Neufeld Award; 2002: Szekszárd National Painting Exhibition Award.

One of the most direct disciples of Barcsay. His early works are still strongly linked to the cityscape of Szentendre. In the seventies and eighties he was already interested in colors and color relations, the balance and clash of forms, horizontal and vertical movements, the harmony or disharmony of approaching and receding motifs, i.e. he was occupied with purely painterly problems. The human figure reduced to a puppet, which is formally very different from the idol- or baluster-like figures of Barcsay or Deim, is often featured on his canvases. His painting has been based on the constructivist tradition from the beginning to the present day, in that compositional discipline and order are of great importance to him, but his choice of subjects often contains poetic moments (Laments, Golgotha, Shadows). His graphic work is also significant, he designed numerous book covers and posters. In the nineties, dozens of settlements (Ferenc Hann)

Condition

Scuffs/wear to frame; water stain at edge of mat

Dimensions

36.75" x 1.25" x 20.75" / Sans Frame - 24.5" x 9.25" (W x D x H)